Wire-screen-cloth rack.



No. 892,214. PATENTED JUNE 30, 1908.

G. E. BENNET. WIRE SCREEN CLOTH RAGK.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 9,1908.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES E. BENNET, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

WIRE-SCREEN-CLO'l-H RACK.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES E. BENNET, a citizen of the United States,residing at Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio,have invented certain new and use ful Improvements in WVire Screen ClothRacks, of which the following is a specification.

It is the object of my invention to provide a wire screen-cloth'rack inwhich the rolls of wire screen-cloth are exposed for exhibition and salewhile the rolls are held against danger of unwinding, there being ringsemployed provided with narrow mouths through which the ends of thescreencloth project and through which the screen-cloth is pulled when itis desired to serve the wire-cloth, the construction being such that therings are adjustably secured so that the mouths thereof may be presentedat various angles with re lation to a horizontal lane for having thescreen-cloth pass theret rough without danger of buckling or crimping.

The invention consists in the parts, and in the construction,arrangement and combinations of parts hereinafter more fully describedand claimed.

In the drawing: Figure 1 is a front elevation of my improved deviceshowing several rolls of wire screen-cloth in position for illustratingthe use of my improved device. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same;and, Fig. 3 is a detail in perspective showing the manner ofconstruction of the rings and the mode of attachment thereof to thestandards.

1 represents a stand comprising the uprights 2, the cross-bars 3 4, andthe bases 5. One of the bases is under each upright, and each uprighthas a brace-iron 6 between it and its base at the rear of the upright.The cross-bars are preferably suitably dove-tailed into the uprights,and the uprights are suitably dove-tailed into the bases. Casters 7 mayalso be provided. The uprights or standards lean toward each other attheir tops, that is, the space 8 between them is tapered toward the top,for accommodating wider widths of wirecloth at the bottom than at thetop. These uprights are also shown as leaning rearwardly, and theconstruction is such that compactness and strength are secured andlittle floor-space occupied.

9 9 are rings, each of which is provided with lips 10 having the mouth11 between Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed May 9, 1908.

Patented June 30, 1908.

Serial No. 431,843.

them. The lips curve outwardly away from the mouth for presenting curvedsurfaces at top and bottom of the mouth to prevent buckling of thescreen-cloth. The rings are secured to each of the uprights, preferablyin steplike form above one another, and arranged in pairs on saiduprights, the respective pairs being adapted to receive the respectiverolls of screen-cloth a. The respective pairs of rings are arrangedsuccessively closer together from bottom to top for accommodatingsuccessivelynarrower rolls of screen-cloth. Each of the rings isprovided with a series of apertures as shown at 12, 13, 14-, 15 and 16,through any one of whicha screw 17 passes into the uprights for securingthe ring in position, the screw passing through any one of the series ofapertures for causing the respective mouths of the rings to extend inthe desired direction for most convenient manipulation of thescreen-cloth.

Thus it will be noticed from Fig. 2 that the mouths of the lower sets ofrings are directed upwardly, the mouths of the middle sets of rings aredirected horizontally and the mouths of the upper sets of rings aredirected downwardly, so as to enable the cloth to be pulled therethroughin the direction most convenient for handling, the screen-cloth in thelower sets of rings projecting through the mouths thereof in an upwardlydirection, while the screen-cloth in the middle sets of rings projectsthrough the mouths thereof in a substantially horizontal direction, thescreen-cloth rolls in these sets of rings being rolled so that thescreen-cloth will unwind from the bottoms of the rolls, while the rollsinserted at the top of the stand are preferably inserted' into the ringsfor unrolling from the top, the end of the roll shown inserted in Fig. 2at the top of the stand projecting downwardly through the mouths of itsrings.

The construction and manner of handling insures that danger of crimpingis reduced to the minimum. By means of my improved device the wirescreen-cloth is always held in coiled condition as the rings arereceived about the coils for preventing unintentional 01' accidentalunrolling of the same, being interrupted only at the narrow mouthsthrough which the screen-cloth is fed when being measured or sold. Therings are adjustably laced on the uprights, preferably in steplikerelation above one another, and are preferably successively closertoward the top of the stand for accommodating different widths of wirescreen-cloth.

Having thus fully described my invention what claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent is:

1. A wire screen-cloth rack comprising uprights, rings on said uprightsarranged in sets above one another for receiving wire screencloth rolls,the rings of each set being separated from each other for supporting thewire screen-cloth rolls at separated points of their lengths, said ringsbeing respectively provided with mouths through which the wirescreen-cloth is drawn, and means for adjustably securing said rings ofthe respective sets of said rings to said uprights for presenting thelower mouths u wardly, the intermediate mouths substantia lyhorizontally and the upper mouths downwardly, substantially as and forthe purpose described.

2. A wire screen-cloth rack comprising uprights, rings on said uprightsarranged in sets above one another for receiving wire screencloth rolls,the rings of each set being sepa rated from each other for supportingthe wire screen-cloth rolls at separated points of their lengths, saidrings be1ng respectively provided with mouths having outwardly curved lis between which the wire screencloth is a apted to be drawn against acurved surface at either lip, each of said rings having a plurality ofapertures arranged about its axis and a screw for each ring passingthrough a selective aperture thereof into said respec tive uprights forsecuring said rings to said uprights with the lower sets of said ringshaving their mouths opening upwardly, the

middle sets of said rings having their mouths opening substantiallyhorizontally and the upper sets of said rings having their mouthsopening downwardly, substantially as and for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof I have subscribed my name hereto in the presence oftwo subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES E. BENNET.

Witnesses:

FLORENCE QUINN, COLEMAN AVERY.

